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Before the city 300 anniversary there were 396 days.
The EUROPEAN hotel has got the
Present shape as a result of full reconstruction of an old building
Under the project of architect L.Fontana in 1873 - 1875. Before
On a place of present hotel there was a construction with the classical
Facade. A fountain has designed a new facade - a la baroque, and in
1908 - 1910 Lidval has built on the fifth floor and a penthouse.
The hotel European by the moment of the opening represented
Itself the luxurious hotel equipped by last word
Technicians. In him the central heating, lifts worked,
Refuse chutes. Though Fountain has decorated a building numerous
Modelled cartouches and caryatids, it is not necessary to forget, that in
Result of an innovation the architectural ensemble has been broken,
Created Rossi. About such buildings Dostoevsky п©п я п п :п п?я
The architecture of modern huge hotel is already efficiency,
Americanism, hundreds numbers, the huge industrial enterprise;
Immediately it is visible, as at us railways and we suddenly were
Have come to be businessmen.
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